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Jeffco Schools

Work looking great on Great Work Montessori

Supporters celebrate final beam placement

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Students, staff, families and construction workers gathered at the future home of Great Work Montessori School for a final beam signing. This new 40,000 square foot, three-story educational facility was designed by MOA Architecture, and in its first year, the capacity for this new charter school will be 250 students ranging from twelve months through third grade.

photos by clarke Reader

Students from Great Work Montessori, Jeffco’s future Montessori school located in east Lakewood, sign one of the final structural beams during a ceremony on Nov3.

The tree on one of the final beams used in the Great Work Montessori School is a symbol of new growth, good luck, and a job that is progressing nicely.

Clarke Reader

Students, teachers, construction workers and supporters gathered at the future home of Great Work Montessori to celebrate the placement of one of the structure’s final beams.

On Nov. 3, students, teachers, families from Great Work Montessori School and Himmelman Construction workers and staff gathered at the future home of the school at 5300 W. Center Ave.

in east Lakewood to celebrate the placement of one of the structure’s final beams.

This new 40,000 square foot, 3-story educational facility was designed by MOA Architecture of Denver and its its first year, the capacity for this new charter school will be 250 students ranging from 12 months through third grade.

The new school includes ten classrooms, a library, multiple common areas, a cafeteria, and approximately 3.5 acres of outdoor learning environments. Multiple modular buildings are planned at an adjacent farm property for the development of the school’s future farming program.

Everyone on hand signed the beam before it was set in place.

“This is a milestone in the building of the school,” said

Eric Kriebel, Senor Project Superintendent with

Himmelman Construction. “We’ve completed one of the hardest parts of the construction.”

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